Burnham insists that his censorship agency is necessary.
Burnham’s Speech Police will battle ‘hostile information attacks’ and ‘deepfakes’ which hurt British interests.”
Here we go again: leftists have shown us again and again that they hate dissent and debate, which are the foundations of any free society. Now the U.K. is heading decisively toward authoritarianism as its crazy-left prime minister, Andy Burnham, has just announced that he plans to establish a “National Centre for Information Defence” in order to fight — you guessed it — “disinformation.”
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Previous blog entries:
Trump in Ireland: Protests against US President Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland. Why are they waving Palestinian flags?
Trump warns in Dublin the Europeans again before they head for the abyss: “I hate to see what’s happening to Europe. I hate to see what’s happening in trade, in energy, and in immigration. This immigration – what you’re doing to yourselves, you’re simply killing yourselves.”
So There Was a Protest Saturday Against Donald Trump in Dublin – They Were Waving Palestinian Flags… In Ireland! WTH Was That?
President Donald Trump traveled to Ireland this weekend after attending the RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas this week and speaking at the Pentagon 9-11 Memorial on Friday.
During his trip to Ireland, Trump met with Irish President Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Micheál Martin early Saturday and said he would love to see Northern Ireland unify with Ireland.
Northern Ireland has been under British rule for over 100 years.
Trump said, “I’d like to see a unified country. I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened. It’s going to happen eventually.”
The US President then traveled to Trump International Golf Club Doonbeg for the Irish Open.
Club members chanted, “USA! USA!” as President Trump walked through the bar and shook hands.
Meanwhile, back in the US of A:
Andy Burnham’s Speech Police
The “National Centre for Information Defence“ is a canny name. It beats Old Joe Biden’s abortive “Disinformation Governance Board” in couching the whole totalitarian move as “defense” (as we spell it in the land of the free and the home of the brave) rather than “governance.” This is intended to give Burnham’s hapless citizenry the impression that what’s being done to them is not more control from the ruling elites, but protection from the evil machinations of deceivers.
Yeah, Andy, the Mafia offered protection, too. Anyway, GB News reported Wednesday that Burnham, “the Prime Minister, addressing the United Nations, announced the centre to improve ‘community cohesion’ and prevent a ‘distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.’” As a result, Burnham “ordered security chiefs to set up the quango, which will detect, attribute and disrupt ‘hostile information attacks’ and ‘deepfakes’ which hurt British interests.”
A “quango” is an organization that receives government financing but is ostensibly an independent group. And we all know that the far-left British government will stay fastidiously out of the affairs of an organization that is charged with stamping out “hostile information attacks” that supposedly “hurt British interests,” now, don’t we?
GB News explained that this new National Centre for Information Defence “is initially being led out of the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, with the new centre working alongside intelligence agencies, Government departments, the police and social media firms.”
What could possibly go wrong, with all those agencies that have nothing but the best interests of the British people at heart running this new center? Surely it will only censor genuine disinformation, and not what the political elites falsely claim is disinformation because it could harm them politically, a la Hunter Biden’s laptop, right?
Burnham insisted that this censorship agency was necessary because there was no “national security without a strong, cohesive society. That’s the starting point for everything we hold dear and everything we want to achieve. But the fact is that it has been under attack.” From whom? Russia was the only attacker he focused upon, but once this monster is up and running, what is to prevent the Labour government from using it against the British patriots it smears as “far right”? Why, nothing, of course.
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